Posted by When creating Veeam vCloud backup jobs you have a lot of options. You can specify the entire vCloud environment, an organization, an org vDC, etc. Usually we create backup jobs that point to a vCloud organization. This is nice because the next time the Veeam backup job runs, it will pick up any new vApps that have been created in vCloud since the last backup job run. Unfortunately, we have one organization that always has failures (all other backup jobs are fine), and it seems like each time the backup job is ran, it’s different vApps that fails. If I create a backup job with a single vApp from this same org, it always succeeds. As a test I wanted to create a single backup job for each vApp in the org, but obviously doing this by hand would be a pain so I decided to look at Veeam’s Powershell providers. Basically the idea is to see if there is any difference between running one Veeam job with all vApps in the org or running many Veeam jobs at once with each job containing a single vApp.
This was a quick script that I tried to create as fast as possible. I did no research and read no documentation (beyond Powershell’s built-in documentation) so it’s probably not optimal. It’s as bare-bones as possible as there is no error handling, etc.
# Set environment variables
$vcloudServerName = "cloud.vmware.local"
$backupRepoName = "repo.vmware.local"
$proxyName = "VMware Backup Proxy"
$orgVdcName = "Test Org vDC*"
# Set Veeam “Backup Infrastructure” items
$vcdServer = get-vbrserver -name $vcloudServerName
$backupRepo = Get-VBRBackupRepository -name $backupRepoName
$proxy = get-vbrviproxy -name $proxyName
# Get all vCloud vApps. Doesn’t seem like you can provide more than one filter so need to filter out the org/org vDC vApps with another command.
$vcdVapps = Find-VBRvCloudEntity -Server $vcdServer -vApp
# Get all of the vApps in the org vDC
$vcdVapps = $vcdVapps | ? { $_.Type -eq 'vApp' -and $_.Path -match $orgVdcName }
# Create a Veeam job for each DCO vApp, and store each job into $vbrJobs
$vbrJobs = $vcdVapps | % { Add-VBRvCloudJob -name "Test Org vDC - $($_.name)" -description "Created automatically by Powershell - $([environment]::username)" -entity $_ -BackupRepository $backupRepo }
# Set the proxy for each job. This is only if you don't want automatic proxy selection to take place. Veeam always selects a proxy halfway across the world so we need to manually select a local proxy.
$vbrJobs | % { set-vbrjobproxy -job $_ -proxy $proxy }
# Create a new job schedule
$jobScheduleOptions = New-VBRJobScheduleOptions
# Set the daily run time to run at 11 PM.
$jobScheduleOptions.OptionsDaily.time = "$(get-date -format d) 11:00 PM"
# Apply the schedule to all the jobs
$vbrJobs | % { Set-VBRJobScheduleOptions $_ -options $jobScheduleOptions }
# Enable the schedule
$vbrJobs | % { Enable-VBRJobSchedule -job $_ }
# Set the jobs to disabled (This was just done so I could verify that the jobs looked good before than ran)
$vbrJobs | % { Disable-VBRJob -job $_ }
# You can enable the jobs with
$vbrJobs | % { Enable-VBRJob -job $_ }
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